Is Linux a desktop operating system?

Tom Adelstein adelste at yahoo.com
Fri May 27 23:23:36 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 19:33 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:11 -0400, David Kaisemann wrote:
> > Tony Arnold Wrote: 
> > > I was amused, and slightly irritated by a comment made on a programme on
> > > the BBC this evening. A transcript of the piece can be found at
> > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4565581.stm
> > > 
> > > The bit that irritated me was:
> > > 
> > > "I believe that it still isn't time to call Linux a 'desktop' operating
> > > system. It simply isn't as usable for everyone as Windows and OS X are.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > "It will be soon, but, for the time being at least, Click Online
> > > doesn't
> > > think it is." 
> > > 
> > > I guess they've not used Ubuntu with the Gnome Desktop. From what I
> > > gather from this list, we have quite a few newbies using this system
> > > and
> > > they are all having a great time with it.
> > > 
> > > Comments anyone?
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Tony.
> 
> I think that If Ubuntu had been the first and only system that I ever
> used then I would have been a very happy and contented user.
> Unfortunately, I still, from time to time, miss some of the applications
> I used with Windows. However, I am content to live without these for the
> time being, and hope that, in the not too distant future, suitable
> educational and reference software, for example, will become available.
> 
> Norman
> 

Norman,

I'd like to know what software you miss. Perhaps we can either find or
make it for you. That's the Linux mantra - we'll just do it ourselves!





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